'Milkiest' substitute for milk?

[midnightexpress]

DS1 (6) has a permanent sniffle which is just not going away. I think it's making him miserable, especially at night. I'm not sure what is causing it (may well be dust mites I think), but he does have a very high dairy intake, so I have been thinking about trying to cut this. I'm wondering which of the various milk alternatives are closest in flavour to milk. Oat milk? Rice milk? Soya milk? Any others? And would something like goat or sheep milk be any better than cow's milk?

Thanks for any advice on this.

My dd can't drink milk. She has tried all the alternatives and has hated the taste. The only one she likes is Kara coconut milk. They sell it in some supermarkets eg: Waitrose and health food shops. You can get it in 1ltr cartons or mini cartons. Worth a try.

Oh great - thanks very much - I'll try that and see how we go.

My recollection of soya milk is that it really doesn't taste anything like milk, so I can't say I blame her entirely!

We've tried all those mentioned. I find rice milk is ds1's favourite for drinking. Oatly is second place. Soya milk only gets a look in if used in cooking (and he doesn't see me using it) and coconut got a big thumbs down!!

Try them all, see what your ds likes best!

That may have to be the way forward - thanks Mawbroon.

From what you're describing dust mite sounds much more likely to be the culprit, in which case washing everything at 60 degrees amd changng sheets frequently, thorough vacuuming including the mattress, freezing soft toys, washing curtains, cleaning all hard surfaces with wet sponge/wipe and airing the room frequently is the way forward. Having minimal soft furnishing helps too but may not be necessary with your DS. HTH.

thanks Chocamum - that's my suspicion too, and in fact we're already doing all of that, but the house is very dusty. We're going to get him a new bed and mattress soon so we'll get a proper mattress protector and see if that makes any difference.

You can get allergy covers for the mattress that zip over the whole mattress from john lewis which I think made quite a bit of difference for us, same with allergy covers for the duvet and pillows. You can also buy relatively cheap humidifiers from Argos which helped my dd when she kept on getting a night time cough. Good luck, I hope you get to the bottom of the cause.

Choc soya milk, from the chilled cabinet. Addictive though.

Funnily enough I have only had one cold in the 6 years I've been allergic to milk.

Mine have soya milk - the Alpro 1+ one is expensive but popular with my boys as sweeter and richer. They also drink oat milk but soya is the main one.

If for long term, need to watch sugar - soya comes in sweetened and unsweetened, and things like the coconut milk are very sweet - but of course there is a trade off as they will drink more of it.
Alpro do chocolate, banana, strawb, and Provamel do vanilla - these are all lapped up in my house.